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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6957 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 9 of 19 05 December 2011 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||
FINNISH: I used a bit of it when spending Midsummer's in Finland and revisiting friends there. I also have got some limited immersion when attending Finnish classes after work. HUNGARIAN: I spent a few days in Hungary this year and used it when socializing with new and old friends INARI SAAMI: It was never part of the plan but an impulse purchase of a kids' textbook while rooting around for stuff in Northern Saami changed that as my log here attests. NORTHERN SAAMI: The secondary goal of this year's visit to Finland was to see its Sami native region and pick up learning material for the language. Mission accomplished. I also got a bit of exposure to Finland's Saamic languages when seeing signs in the region in its 3 Saamic languages. POLISH: I spent about a week in Poland this year and used it when socializing with new and old friends SLOVAK: I spent a weekend visiting friends in Prague and Bratislava (in Prague I got the usual situation of talking in Slovak and getting responses in Czech). I also get some live practice as I regularly meet some Czech friends and get more of the same Czech-Slovak conversations. I can't remember any instance of having used a target language with a guest this year. I don't know yet where I will travel next year and so check in with me next year :-P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4669 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 10 of 19 05 December 2011 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hm, maybe I should start learning Russian. They are everywhere on vacation.
Greek, learned the alphabet in Greece Turkish, learned 10 words Thai, learned 4 words Vietnamese, learned nothing but got a nice course in Vietnamese for 15 USD in Ho CHi Minh. German, passive listening to German tourists. 2012: Dont know yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4666 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 19 05 December 2011 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish is my first new language, and last summer I hadn't been at it long enough to really benefit from immersion. This coming summer, however, I'm planning on taking a four-week immersion course in Mexico. I'm really looking forward to it.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6398 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 12 of 19 05 December 2011 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I went only to Finland, five times. i didn't obviously plan this but all the places I went to have Swedish names as well: Helsingfors/Vanda/Dickursby, Tavastehus, Tammerfors, Åbo, Nådendal, Uleåborg, Villmanstrand, (...oh damn fail, Imatra doesn't have a Swedish name!), Borgå. I didn't hear much Swedish there but I watched some Swedish TV and sang along to karaoke shows. Got more used to the Scandinavian weird spelling, heh. Wanted to buy a German textbook for Swedish speakers but couldn't find any (other than a couple of school ones).
Also made an amazing trip to a reindeer park and I heard some joiku in Saami (the Northern one as far as I remember). Oh and I also went to Belarus but I don't think I had any contact with Belarusian :S as for next year... mum wants to go to Italy or Czech Republic. I want to go to Finland again:D well, obviously i also want to go to these two, but only if I can also go to Finland. and I'd rather go to Italy when my Italian is a bit better - perhaps the main minus of the AJATT way of studying. Edited by Serpent on 05 December 2011 at 11:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SmilingStraw Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4711 days ago 35 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 13 of 19 06 December 2011 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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I practiced Arabic with a few of my friends. I have one Egyptian friend, one Jordanian, and one Iraqi, and I spent a few days just with them. Nothing beyond that, however, but it was a blast.
I would've gone to some Middle Eastern countries had not the Arab Spring broken out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stout Senior Member Ireland Joined 5172 days ago 108 posts - 140 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 14 of 19 13 December 2011 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would like to return to France to stay there for another few months.I had lived there
before for almost six months.Unfortunately the economic downturn at the beginning of 2009 had prompted my departure from France. I would like to return to France and live there for another few months at least.However with the current economic crisis at present.I am not willing to spend anymore money at the present moment. Yes going to live in the country of your target language is an excellent idea and is the best way to master the language but you need plenty of money and/or a very good prospect of finding long term stable employment in the country of your target language. Edited by stout on 13 December 2011 at 8:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4931 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 15 of 19 13 December 2011 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm planning on going to live in Turkey in 2012. It's the only way I'm realistically going to get to anything higher than a B2 level in the language.
Plus I'm really excited about it. The people, culture, food... they all interest me a lot! R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5943 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 16 of 19 14 December 2011 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I spent exactly a month in Greece in May/June and naturally was able to practice my Greek quite extensively. Sadly that is the only international trip I've been on this year. However, in August 2012 I'm moving to Croatia for a year and so will be able to take advantage of that time by bringing my practically nonexistent Croatian up to a fluent level...and hopefully also visit a few other countries in the vicinity. :)
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